Like many others, I have also watched the painful scenes, including the body of the dead Syrian child lying face down on the Turkish shores and the inhuman treatment of the Hungarian authorities toward the Syrian refugees.
These scenes were an opportunity for the media to record the dilemma of these refugees who are running away from their war-torn country in search for a refuge. This bad treatment was not restricted to the Hungarian police but we saw a TV camerawoman kicking and beating children. Undoubtedly, these scenes filled us with anger and shame.
This refugee problem, according to observers, will not come to end soon reportedly due to various factors. Among those factors is that human traffickers are exploiting these refugees to make money, while some western governments are exploiting it for political gains.
But what we found very strange in this situation is the timing and the motives behind it. One could easily conclude that something is fishy about this sudden wave of refugees. It all looks orchestrated. Not only this, but most of these refugees do not seem to be running away from the woes of war because the majority are young men who fell victims to human smuggling gangs who are abandoning them on high seas.
It is clear that most of these refugees are not from impoverished regions but rather they are from regions, which are under the control of Assad’s regime. Undoubtedly, this regime is encouraging these people, especially the Sunnis, to leave their country as part of a scheme to change the demographics of the country.
In fact, Iran has succeeded in implementing this scheme in Iraq through its sectarian militias. The US and Europe were party to this scheme by encouraging the displaced Iraqis — the Sunnis and Christians — to apply for migration.
Therefore, while we really sympathize with these refugees, we also warn against this evil scheme so as to ease pressure on the Syrian regime.
By announcing that the US will receive 10,000 Syrian refugees and by distributing many thousand others among European countries will not solve the Syrian problem. Apparently, the West is not prepared to tighten the noose around Assad’s neck; rather they are leaving the field to other powers and giving them a free hand to reshape future of the country. Of course, this means that the war in Syria will drag on for years to come.
